April 17 (UPI) — A sea lion wandered out of the Pacific Ocean and was found several blocks inland in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset District.<\/p>\n
Residents said they awoke Thursday morning to find a sea lion being wrangled by police and San Francisco Parks & Recreation rangers in the area of 48th Avenue and Irving Street.\n<\/p>\n
“Wasn’t an arrest, exactly, but the police officers were trying to get a California sea lion in custody,” Tamara Barak Aparton, a San Francisco Parks & Recreation spokesperson, told CBS San Francisco<\/a>. “It had wandered out of the ocean and onto the city street.”<\/p>\n Personnel from the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito were summoned to the scene and loaded the sea lion into a vehicle for transport.<\/p>\n The sea lion, dubbed Irving by the Marine Mammal Center, will be assessed by veterinarians before hopefully being returned to the ocean, officials said.<\/p>\n “We are grateful for the quick action, dedication, and support from our partners that allowed this young animal to be rescued in the wee hours of the morning, giving Irving a second chance,” the center said in a statement provided to KGO-TV.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 17 (UPI) — A sea lion wandered out of the Pacific Ocean and was found several blocks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2113,7761,3554,101,103,102,104,106,105,7760],"class_list":["post-272755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}